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It's not a formal term; the author was just drawing the parallel between memory + disk thrashing and the DOM + layout thrashing. Basically slowdown due to exces
by rmrfrmrf 13y ago
It's not a formal term; the author was just drawing the parallel between memory + disk thrashing and the DOM + layout thrashing. Basically slowdown due to excessive reads and writes/redundantly moving data back and forth.